White, Martin

Installation, print, lecture performance, video, text

Born in Australia. Based in Oslo.
Working at the intersection of documentary and speculation, my practice takes the form of videos, installations, photography, prints and lecture performances. I dissect social marginality and socio-political or institutional power structures.
Whilst my work is intended to unsettle systems beyond those of the art world, my conceptual motivations pivot on issues relating to social politics and cultural history.
I studied Fine Art at RMIT in Melbourne (first class Honours), and completed my MFA at the Norwegian National Academy of Art in Oslo in 2017. In 2002 I received a post-graduate diploma in dramatic art (directing) from the VCA in Melbourne. I have previously directed theatre, film and television. My performance and film works have been shown at film and performance festivals internationally and I have exhibited in group shows in Melbourne, Malmö and Oslo. I have had solo shows with Tokonoma at Melk in 2018 and upcoming solo shows at Podium, and Oslo Kunstforening both in 2019.
Alongside my artistic practice, I have published essays and reviews, sat on award and grant panels, worked as a researcher, occasionally taught and work as a gallery exhibition manager.

Are We Not Drawn Onward, We FeW, drawn OnwarD to NeW erA?, Martin White, lecture performance documentation,

Foto:
Daniel Hansen

Gaustad, Martin White, digital print

Foto:
Martin White

Coranderrk, Martin White, altered archival photograph, 70 x 70 cm

Foto:
Martin White

Planlagte prosjekter og utstillinger

2016 – 2019 Ongoing research into the life and career of Carl Wilhelm Sem-Jacobsen, a controversial Norwegian experimental psychiatrist.
2019 Duo show ‘Is this OK?’ at Oslo Kunstforening with Matthew Berka
2019 Solo show at Podium
2019 – 2020 Research based artwork which will use the critical cultural analysis of a 2014 Norwegian Christmas edition of Donald Julehefter, Helt På Vidda as a starting point. Through the close examination of this particular comic book, the project will spiral outwards and address: the political activism of Sámi people; the relationship between Norway and its indigenous peoples; mining of Sámi land; North American Imperialism in Norway; the Marshall Plan; the Disney Company’s global political operations; and Walt Disney’s personal political interventions. This specific analysis will be conducted through the paradigms of: the radical 1971 Chilean work How to Read Donald Duck by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart; the Norwegian works Donald- Landet (2012) by Øyvind Holen; and Donaldismen (1973) by Jon Gisle. The research will lead to diverse artistic outcomes that may include forms such as audio and video works, prints, publications, a lecture- performance, interviews, public events, posters and/ or installation.